He was my one of my dad's favourites & he often talks about a penalty he scored v Bury in a 5-0 cup win that nearly took the keeper into the net.

Colin Taylor also had terrific power in his shot.

For the curling in type free kicks, both Peter Taylor & Alan Whittle were class.

Of the recent/current players it has to be Darren Ambrose.

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, at my age, I don't even buy green bananas!

Ambrose freekick vs Villa has to be the best free kick I've seen us score since I started watching in 68. Guess he's not hit those heady heights since then but he could come good yet.

I was at that Bury 5-0 cup game as well as your Dad. I think it was the 1964/65 season that we reached last 8 after later beating Southampton and Notts Forest
[ division higher than us ] before going out at home 3-0 on a miserable night [ rearranged from Saturday as terraces too icy ] to Leeds who were one of the best sides in the land.

Also, I seem to remember a skinny, blond 17 year old that captained Bury in the 5-0 match....Colin Bell.

Hope I'm right as memory not what it was lol.

Andy Gray

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Ian Holloway Palace Managerial record:

P-17 W-5 D-7 L-5 F-26 A-19 GD +7 Points 21/45

Win Rate - 29.41%
Draw Rate - 41.17%
Lose Rate - 29.41%

Yeh Ambrose's shooting from freekicks is about the best we've had in recent years, but Simon Rodger's the best crosser of the ball i've seen at Palace!

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Harry Gunning.....he could really hit them,you wouldn't want to front him in the wall,saw him knock a guy completely unconscious.

........................Then along came Johnny Byrne! and the rest, as they say, is history.....................